Amish Win Warning Sign Battle

Amish farmers have a constitutional right not to put bright orange warning signs on their plain black buggies because their conservative religion prohibits such displays, a judge ruled today.

“The First Amendment compels toleration of sincerely held beliefs of minority religious groups,” Barren District Judge Ben Dickinson wrote in dismissing a traffic ticket issued to an Amish man for not carrying a sign on his horse-drawn carriage marking it as a slow-moving vehicle.